# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1853 09 13_S15
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be changed into Masses and are so much the more effective.—Now, dear little Jesus, allow me yet another question: There are so many heretics. Are they then lost forever, is there for them no rescue, no redemption? Answer: O yes, if they betake themselves into the bosom of the only saving Church, for there is heaven on earth, and in heaven there will be joy etc.—But now, dear little Jesus, only one more question: Is there then for those who have led them astray, for the false teachers, no forgiveness and redemption? The preacher behaves quite indignantly, and with a very strong voice the false teachers are cursed and given over to the devil for fearful torments and punishments of hell. They must burn as long as the devil has a single spark in his storeroom. (Pilger aus S.)

The Roman Catholic Church and the Bible Societies. The Römisch-kathe[illegible] Kirchenblatt, appearing with the approval of the Prince-Episcopal General Vicariate Office, relates the reasons why the Catholic Church disapproves of the efforts of the Protestant Bible societies. They are as follows: 1) Because the letter profits not, but the Spirit giveth life. 2) Because the Lord Christ did not say to the Apostles: Go forth and write and print and distribute Bibles and teach the people to read, but only: Go and teach; he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, even if he cannot read. 3) Because Christ said: Cast not your pearls before swine, and give not that which is holy unto the dogs. 4) Because the Bibles spread by the Bible societies are falsified Bibles, into which error has imperceptibly strewn its poison.

Christ, the Alpha and the Omega of Holy Scripture.

As a man in many different places, at various times, under unlike occupations, nevertheless always has the same form, so in the Word of God, in every place, as in a mirror, the image of our LORD Christ is set before us, although the circumstances under which he appears to us are not always the same, and his form is also here and there veiled, and sometimes what we read indicates his presence only by this, that the surroundings into which we are led are waiting for him.

The Pastoral Office.

The pastoral office is, like the eye in the body, neither above, nor below, nor outside, but essentially in the congregation. On the whole and in general the congregation can no more lack it than the body can lack that member. Yet a single member can indeed subsist in itself, but only as a part of the body, so that it subsists together through the service of the eye; so also a single Christian can be a perfect Christian without being a pastor, yes, even a Christian without having a pastor: for even the hand of the blind is a perfect hand; but the service of this member in the body of Christ, the holy preaching office, no Christian can in any case do without. Even the hand of the blind enjoys, though indirectly, and not of its own, yet of the eyes, because even a blind man could not live if there were no eyes to prepare his food, keep his house, and clothe and protect him.

I am the Light of the world. John 8, 12.

This saying Caiaphas and the Jewish synagogue, together with all false teachers, interpret thus: "No, I am the light of the world!" For because it is the key to the whole Word of God, they think they must turn it around.

K. R.

Herr Prof. Winkler wants to involve me in a piece of gossip in the "Kirchl. Informator." (Jahrg. 3. Num. 1. p. 3). I do not answer it, but permit myself the remark that rumor vulgi has no force of proof. The dust which he stirs up is good at most for cakes which one offers to the Melochet of heaven. I am sorry that the "Kirchl. Informator." buys its wares from such cake-bakers. Thereby it comes under suspicion that its outcry about the dreadful danger threatening the Church from the Missourians has the same impure ground as that at Ephesus (Acts 19, 24. 34.) If it goes on so, which I do not wish, it may well be a schoolmaster, but only such a one as belongs in the school of scandal.

K. Röbbelen.

The Lutheran Almanac.

This calendar, published by T. N. Kurtz in Baltimore, has now appeared also for the year 1854, and a copy of it has been kindly sent to us. It is in any case worthy of thanks to find in it all sorts of statistical information about those who call themselves Lutherans in the United States. It is remarkable that the portrait of Luther is on the title page, whereas the portraits of Zwingli and Calvin (of those "great Reformers") are found in the almanac. Involuntarily we were reminded thereby of certain packets of tobacco which have on the outside the inscription: "Superfine Canaster." Still stranger it seemed to us to find, in a list of the "great theologians of the Lutheran Church," among others not only the whole tribe of the new-believing United-Evangelical† theologians, but even the most horrible rationalists and enemies of Christ, such as a Herder, Paulus (this godless Saul), Ammon, Bretschneider, Wegscheider, Gesenius, Röhr, etc. If these are great theologians of the Lutheran Church, then the devil too was an angel of heaven when he once stood in the midst of the children of God before the LORD. (Job 1, 6.)

†) That is: such as unite the Gospel with the wisdom of the world.

Church News.

1.

On the Wednesday after the 13th Trinity, Herr P. H. Kühne, formerly assistant preacher at Fort Wayne, having been regularly called by the German Evangelical Lutheran St. John's Congregation at Euclid near Cleveland, was installed by me in his new office, on the commission of the first Vice-President of the Synod, with the assistance of Pastors Steinbach and Strieter; whereby at the same time the newly built little church was dedicated.

2.

Since the Cleveland congregation counts a fairly considerable number of members in the neighboring Ohio City, and the need of a service of its own there, but still more of a school, was growing ever greater, the congregation has acquired a plot of ground at a suitable place, erected a building upon it, which for the present is to serve at once as church and school, and has called in the person of Herr J. C. W. Lindemann a second preacher, who is to live in Ohio City, preach alternately with the first pastor in both churches, and for the present take over the school instruction in O. C. He was ordained by me, on the commission of the Vice-President, on the 14th Sunday after Trinity in the Zion's Church at Cleveland, with obligation to all the Confessional Writings of the Lutheran Church.

H. C. Schwan.

The address of both brethren is:
Care of H. C. Schwan,
Cleveland, Ohio.

On the commission of the Vice-President, Herr Dr. Sihler, Heinrich König, pupil of the Fort Wayne Seminary, after he had received and accepted a regular call from several congregations in Henry Co., Ohio, was solemnly ordained by me on the 12th Sunday after Trinity (14 August) in the midst of the congregation which had first called him, and was obligated to all the Confessional Writings of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. May the LORD, who has called also this new laborer into His vineyard and opened to him a great door, grant him also strength and wisdom, that he may lead many souls to eternal salvation.

A. Detzer.

The address of the dear brother is:
Rev. H. Kœnig,
Texas,
Henry Co., Ohio.

A Lutheran Preacher Wanted.

The German Ev. Luth. St. John's Congregation in Cäsar Creek Township, Dearborn Co., Ind., is in need of a preacher and therefore calls upon orthodox preachers who would be inclined to take over the pastoral office with it, to appear in its midst by the next 2nd of October and to give two trial sermons. The annual salary is $200 00; besides, the preacher receives free dwelling and 7 acres of cleared land for his use. Reimbursement of travel expenses cannot at first be promised.

G. H. Greive,
Secretary of the said congregation, on its behalf.